Embedded Timelines Questions

DustinYoxall · 2013-03-29T16:07:21.000Z

Is there a way to limit the number of tweets being pulled in to the embedded timelines. I need to be able to limit it to the three most recent tweets but can’t find a way to do this with the new widgets. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Saito_Chikara · 2013-03-29T16:24:23.000Z

I’m having a hard time following the method to fix this problem. I do not see anywhere, at all, where I need to mention a domain to place this widget on. There is no “Field” or “box” for me to put this information.

Every time I place the timeline widgetHTML on my website, all I get is “tweets by @…”…

I had no problem last week, I pasted the code as it came, and now it’s bugged up. I have tried altering the HTML based off of several fixes I’ve seen on the site, and nothing fixes it.

The only options I can edit when creating (or editing) a user widget are the following:
Username:
Height:
Theme:
Link Colour:

And that is all. I’ve been following links from one help topic to another with no solution in sight, and I am getting very frustrated. I am also attempting to place a widget on one of my client’s sites for their Twitter account, and the same deal applies. It doesn’t work, there are no options to change the “domain reference” or whatever, and this is not simple in the slightest. I liked the old widget from last year. At least it worked properly.

Please post a reply, as I am in urgent need of assistance.

If it is not possible to post a step-by-step tutorial, I would like to know why it is so hard for Twit to do so. At least tell us what we have to click on to load this “domain authenticator”.

Thank you in advance.

im_melissa · 2013-03-29T16:37:14.000Z

I hope this question isn’t too simplistic. When these widgets say they update in real time, should it be pulling in tweets as they come in? I’m trying to create something to act as a second screen companion during sporting events. When the page loads, the latest hashtag shows up. But anyone else who uses that hashtag does not show up until the page is refreshed. Any thoughts? Is there a better widget out there for this purpose? Also, I’m sure this has been answered (and I’ll keep looking through) but the account this is associated with gets retweeted a lot. Any way to exclude retweets from appearing in a hashtag search?

Thanks!

cpdiku · 2013-03-30T21:20:28.000Z

Can only second that. The domain configuration stuff is completely gone and the “safe mode” bug for search widgets is still not working. Any updates?

standingupforJC · 2013-03-31T11:48:00.000Z

Here’s what I found to solve the issue: Twitter Block – WordPress.com Support

This worked for me. See: www.standingupforJC.wordpress.com (left side)

standingupforJC · 2013-03-31T11:50:00.000Z

Here’s what I found to solve the issue:

WordPress.com Support – 18 Jan 19

Twitter Block

Use the Twitter block to embed tweets into your posts and pages. You can also pull all of the content from single tweets and Twitter threads, known as tweetstorms, directly into the draft of any pa…

This worked for me. See: www.standingupforJC.wordpress.com (left side)

PanaPhobe · 2013-03-31T18:26:58.000Z

Is the widget function making an assumption that the script sought is the first in the array returned by getElementsByTagName? I can only get this working if it’s in its own doc, eg an iframe

Takazudo · 2013-04-01T14:02:05.000Z

same error for me. widgets.js Line:17. Chrome says.

twigcreative · 2013-04-01T17:04:38.000Z

I’ve checked this page, but the problem still exists. I don’t understand where you’re able to enter domains and sub-domains.

PopzillaJoe · 2013-04-02T03:55:27.000Z

Hi. I’m trying to use twitter on my website, which I’ve done in the past. I was attempting to create a widget again, and there isn’t a field to enter the domain anymore? Has that changed? Am I missing something?

DennisKrijgsman · 2013-04-02T06:43:38.000Z

Is the widget id always necessary. I like to search on more than 1 hashtags.
For example #bisaas #birstbi #cloudbi.

Ik dont know how to make a custom solution. Are there any examples?

LittlestLyons · 2013-04-03T02:34:00.000Z

Dude simple fix that I may be late to the party to realize–

When you copy/paste the widget code directly from the twitter site the javascript sources “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” automatically. All I had to do was simply change that sucker to “http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” and WABAM problem solveddddddd

closdesign · 2013-04-03T19:03:18.000Z

I have multiple staff members that use Twitter on our site. I USED to be able to use the
ttp://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js and pass the ScreenName to the ‘setUser’ parameter of the JS widget provided by Twitter a while back. Now I am told that I can not use this.
Does this mean I have to create a new widget FOR EACH staff member in my organization that has a Twitter account. I was able to just pass the JS the ScreenName and then the widget would pull. Now that is not possible if EACH staff member of our organization has to create a widget. This is kind of a step backwards.

AnjDelgado · 2013-04-04T14:09:58.000Z

Anything new on this?

longbow_archer · 2013-04-04T14:32:56.000Z

I have embedded the Twitter timeline widget but I want to exclude my own tweets - I can see that I could use the query string to do this, but that would then not pull tweets of people mentioning me - hopw can this be got around?

Thanks

Johnny

magbicaleman · 2013-04-04T18:10:53.000Z

@froginthevalley I just tweeted you about this. Wondering if there is any progress on this. Currently having to use the previous widget with the 150 calls per ip per hour, but that limit is causing the feeds to be broken. Thanks!

acc10xt · 2013-04-04T20:39:00.000Z

Tried searching for an answer to this question high and low w/ no luck, but…

For the embedded timeline does the data-widget-id need to be unique for each widget created, or can it be reused for multiple twitter accounts’ widgets?

I’m a developer for an org with a number of web properties and numerous twitter accounts within those properties. If at all possible, we’d like to avoid having to go into several dozen individual Twitter accounts to generate a single widget that’s specific to a single account, and am very much hoping we could reuse a single data-widget-id across accounts while passing in different @accountnames.

Ex:
Tweets by @account1 / Tweets by @account2 / Tweets by @account3

BingPolitics · 2013-04-05T00:38:00.000Z

Hi,

We’re seeing a similar cross-site scripting warning for the widget that we embed on our page too using IE10. Debugger says: “SEC7130: Potential cross-site scripting detected in ‘https://r.twimg.com/jot’. The content has been modified by the XSS Filter.”

The widget is:

Tweets from @BingPolitics/political-experts

Have you seen this before?

Thanks,
Bing Politics

BingPolitics · 2013-04-05T00:43:49.000Z

Hi,

We are seeing a similar cross-site scripting error on the page that we embed the widget on IE10. The error says:
“SEC7130: Potential cross-site scripting detected in ‘https://r.twimg.com/jot’. The content has been modified by the XSS Filter.”

The widget we’re embedding is
Tweets from @BingPolitics/political-experts

Have you seen this before?

Thanks,
Bing Politics

dersec · 2013-04-05T14:35:46.000Z

Any chance to get hands on buttons, headline, header, footer, avatar etc?

You cannot be serious not allowing embedding pages to change such.
It is that kind of unobtrusive integration that brought you where you are.